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Market Commentary: Some Tweaks but Bearish Weather

Trading was mostly lower before USDA released its Acreage and Stocks reports at noon eastern time today. The reports could have been market movers but much of what they said was already expected to some degree. Once released, they confirmed the bearish tone that was already in play but was possibly more driven by helpful showers rolling into some growing areas mid-next week.   While the reports were mostly neutral, they were notable. Corn acres again outnumber soybean acres – farmers love to grow corn despite higher input costs. There may be more spring wheat, but planting is so delayed in the Dakotas and Minnesota that USDA will have to re-survey the area. Wheat stocks were known to be tight, and there are only slight...

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The Historic Context for January WASDE Yield Surprises

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45Z Tax Credit Preliminary Guidance Released; No GREET Model Yet

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Market Commentary: Big Bullish Whopper

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds

The Historic Context for January WASDE Yield Surprises

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45Z Tax Credit Preliminary Guidance Released; No GREET Model Yet

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feed-grains soy-oilseeds wheat

Summary of Futures

Mar 25 Corn closed at $4.705/bushel, up $0.145 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Wheat closed at $5.3075/bushel, down $0.0325 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Soybeans closed at $10.2525/bushel, up $0.2625 from yesterday's close. Mar 25 Soymeal closed at $298.3/short ton, down $1 from...

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Communicating importance of value-added products

Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.

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